Bauska Municipality
Bauska Municipality is a municipality in Zemgale, Latvia. The municipality was formed in 2009 by merging Brunava parish, Ceraukste parish, Code parish, Dāviņi parish, Gailīši parish, Īslīce parish, Mežotne parish, Vecsaule parish and Bauska town, the administrative centre being Bauska.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bauska castle museum and Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit.
Bauska castle museum
Museum
Photo: Lavinsh, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bauska Castle is a complex consisting of the ruins of an earlier castle and a later palace on the outskirts of the Latvian city of Bauska. While originally a hill fort, the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Knights built the castle in the fifteenth century, the palace was added in the sixteenth century, and restoration began in the nineteenth century.
Bauska Church of the Holy Spirit
Church
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Church of the Holy Spirit is a Lutheran church and the oldest existing building in Bauska, Latvia. Built between 1591 and 1594 for the needs of the city's Baltic German population.
St. George’s Church, Bauska
Church
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St. George's Church is a Latvian Orthodox church in Bauska, Latvia. In 1876 czarist authorities gifted a plot of land to the local Orthodox community which was established in 1856 and by 1881 numbered 95 people.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bauska and Mūsa.
Bauska
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Bauska is a town in Zemgale, 66 km from Riga and 20 km from the Lithuanian border, at the confluence of the Mūsa and Mēmele rivers where they form the Lielupe river.
Saulaine
Village
Photo: Ivars Indāns, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saulaine is a village, which is situated 4½ km west of Bauska Municipality.
Bauska Municipality
- Type: municipality of Latvia with 40,500 residents
- Description: municipality of Latvia from 1 July 2021
- Location: Bauska Municipality, Latvia, Baltic states, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Bauska Municipality” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بلدية بوسكا”
- Armenian: “Բաուսկայի շրջան”
- Basque: “Bauska udalerria”
- Belarusian: “Баўскі край”
- Catalan: “Bauska”
- Catalan: “Municipi de Bauska”
- Chinese: “Bauska Chū-tī-thé”
- Chinese: “包斯卡市鎮”
- Danish: “Bauskas novads”
- Dutch: “Bauska”
- Dutch: “Bauskas novads”
- Esperanto: “municipo Bauska”
- Esperanto: “Municipo Bauska”
- Estonian: “Bauska piirkond”
- French: “Bauska”
- French: “Bauskas novads”
- Galician: “Municipio de Bauska”
- Georgian: “ბაუსკის მხარე”
- German: “Bezirksgemeinde Bauska”
- Indonesian: “Munisipalitas Bauska”
- Italian: “comune di Bauska”
- Italian: “Municipalità di Bauska”
- Japanese: “バウスカ市”
- Korean: “바우스카시”
- Latvian: “Bauskas novads”
- Lithuanian: “Bauskės savivaldybė”
- Macedonian: “Бауска (општина)”
- Macedonian: “Бауска”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Bauska Chū-tī-thé”
- Northern Frisian: “Bauskas novads”
- Persian: “شهرداری باوسکا”
- Polish: “Bauska”
- Polish: “Gmina Bauska”
- Romanian: “Bauska”
- Russian: “Бауский край”
- Russian: “Баускский край”
- Spanish: “municipio de Bauska”
- Spanish: “Municipio de Bauska”
- Ukrainian: “Бауський край”
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